MacBook AIR World Thinnest Laptop

Apple has come up with world’s thinnest note book which is small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelop. MacBook AIR costs $1799.

This is truly a surprising technology innovation from Apple which had brought up Notebook 2.0

Following are key features of the MacBook AIR

• Multi Touch
  MacBook Air includes an oversize trackpad with multi-touch technology. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust an image. This gesture-based input so successful on iPhone and iPod touch now comes to MacBook.
• 13.3″ LED Display
  The backlit LED display allows for an even thinner build. It provides instant full-screen brightness the moment you open MacBook Air. The mercury- and arsenic-free display is also more power efficient, which translates to longer battery life.
• a USB 2.0 port,
• a headphone jack
• micro-DVI port that supports DVI, VGA, composite, and S-video output.
• MagSafe power connection.
• 2GB of RAM built in
• 80GB hard drive (option to upgrade to a 64GB solid-state drive)
• 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• built-in iSight camera

Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript @ 360Flex

I am glad to announce that I will be speaking at 360Flex on “Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript”

My topic will be covering following points and much more.

• Flex and JavaScript Hand in Hand.
• Integration and communication between Flex and JavaScript.
• Flex and Ajax Bridge.
• Simple approaches to achieve most usable UI using Flex and JavaScript.
• Building word processor using flex and javascript.
• Drag and Drop management between Flex Component and JavaScript component.
• Some Examples
• Q and A

This session will bring up light on many good technique and challenges while working with flex and JavaScript.

See you @ 360Flex Atlanta.

Register for 360Flex Atlanta / Europe

The REST in RPC

There are Different ways for RPC for data exchange like WebService besed on SOAP, WSDL WS- and REST. I have come across an interesting article which focuses on Introduction to REST and Key Principals of REST.

Article talk briefly on following RESTful Principals:

• Give every thing an ID
• Link things together
• Use standard methods
• Resources with multiple representations
• Communicate statelessly

This is good article to understand REST quickly and enter in to RESTful arena

Read Article here…

James Gosling on JavaFX and Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR

Kathleen Richards has posted notes of interview with James Gosling (Creator of the java programming language).

Here are some Q&A Discussed with James Gosling which are specifically for Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR.

How will JavaFX be positioned with regard to Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR?
[James] : It certainly competes with both of those. I think we have a much broader and more capable API set. We’ve got a much stronger security story and cross-platform story and a really strong performance story. And I think our deliverable will be really nice.

As organizations think about building rich Internet applications or rich client applications, when should developers look at JavaFX over competing technologies?
[James] :Â “If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.” We’ve had a platform for years that can build rich Internet applications that are extremely sophisticated.
Our issue hasn’t really been, can you build interesting rich Internet applications? But that it’s difficult. And most of our efforts really are around making a lot of it easier.

In RIA technology space Flash Platform and AJAX are leader and Microsoft (Silverlight) and SUN (JavaFX) are just coming in action.

I am sure that Flash/Flex Platform Community will have some reaction on this.

You can read full article here…

Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions

Adobe’s James Ward shared Flex Misconceptions with infoQ.com at QCon. James answered many contradictory questions about flex misconceptions.

At the end there are many comments and concern posted by users have been answered by James.
Have a look at interesting post here…
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/top-10-flex-misconceptions